Candace Hicks

Candace Hicks collects coincidences from the books she reads in her artists’ books and installations. With the exhibition Read Me at Lawndale Art Center, Hicks opened the book form into a room-sized interactive installation in which viewers pieced together a puzzle of narrative to find the correct solution. The Locked Room at Living Arts in Tulsa focused on a specific genre of literature the “locked room” mystery, and visitors were tasked with the challenge to find the means of metaphorically escaping the gallery. For Many Mini Murder Scenes at Women and Their Work, Hicks reproduced tableaux plucked from crime fiction and offered viewers the experience of playing detective and hunting for clues.
Her work consists of artist’s books, video, performance, printmaking and drawing. Books from her Common Threads series are in more than 80 collections around the world including, MFAH, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Athenaeum, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Grolier Club, Harvard, Hungarian Multicultural Center, MIT, MoMA, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, UCLA Biomedical Library, Stanford, and Yale.

MFA Texas Christian University

2023

Understanding Coincidence in the Multiverse, Ivester Contemporary, Austin, TX

2022

Notes for String Theory, Meadows Museum, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA

Notes for String Theory, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX

2020

Secret Passage, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX

2019

The Case of the Endless Yarn, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Paper Cuts, ro2 Gallery, Dallas, TX

2018

Many Mini Murder Scenes, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
2017

Egress, Pump Project, Austin, TX

2016

The Locked Room, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK

The Perpetual Motion Machine, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, TX

Napoleon’s Wallpaper, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX

Rooms by the Sea, Proxy Gallery, Culver City, CA, curator Annetta Kapon

Read Me, Tarrant County College, Arlington, TX

Napoleon’s Wallpaper, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS

2015

Read Me, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

Napoleon’s Wallpaper, Box 13 Gallery, Houston, TX

Candace Hicks, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO

2014

Super String Theory, Post-Studio Projects, Houston, TX

2013

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